Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday delivered a $51.5 billion budget proposal for the 2025-2026 fiscal year that he touted as a plan for Pennsylvania “on the rise.” It includes new investments in public ...

NPR senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving wants readers to ignore Trump’s first term and instead focus on political theater like Trump “working a shift” at a Bucks County McDonald’s last fall.

With each passing day, we’re seeing more signs of our federal government becoming on oligarchy that puts the economic interests of the ultra-rich above the needs of ordinary Americans. In the face of ...

Growing up isn’t easy. From recess skirmishes and name calling to harrowing and sometimes relentless online bullying, targets can feel isolated, vulnerable, wounded and alone. Stop Bullying.gov said ...

Now that ICE agents have the green light to conduct operations at or near schools, school playgrounds, and bus stops, it is critical for districts to understand the law and have procedures in place to ...

New York, for example, left $21 million in rebates on the table and should have collected an unknown amount of money associated with another $11.7 million in costs. Between 2008 and 2020, the agencies ...

More than a year after the Pennsylvania Department of State canceled a contract to upgrade the state’s voter registration system, there’s still no replacement contract in place. The state has been ...

Elving presents the politics of the second Trump administration as a perplexing paradox: Today we are confronted with an alliance between those whom political scientists might call plutocrats and ...

This week, I can’t stop thinking about the similarities between the pardoned January 6 felons and the Elon Musk fanboys who now seem to be running the Federal government (into the ground!) on Trump’s ...

Whole Foods workers at the Philadelphia flagship store in the city’s Art Museum area voted to unionize on Jan. 27, 2025. They are the first store in the Amazon-owned grocery chain to do so. Paul Clark ...

A diverse coalition of pro-democracy advocates and lawmakers gathered in Harrisburg Tuesday in support of two bills which would create a “fair districting” amendment to the state constitution. Around ...

Dehumanization is a time-tested strategy of autocrats everywhere. It provides them with a ready-made scapegoat for unemployment, crime, and a struggling economy; builds national unity by identifying ...